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Quote: just giving away free webhosting
Giving something away for free is fee avoidance in eBay's eyes.
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How true.
ebay just isn't into anything charity unless they get listing fees, fvf fees, paypal fees, $10.00 minimum plus $3.00 and 2.9%! lol
[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=1610.msg5864#msg5864 date=1134162324]
[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=1610.msg5773#msg5773 date=1133974897]
Quote: just giving away free webhosting
Giving something away for free is fee avoidance in eBay's eyes.
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How true.
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On one hand ebay thinks it's invincible.
On the other, I think ebay is afraid. VERY afraid.
Yep, their take on it was that it was fee avoidance:
Quote:Hello Jen,
Thank you for writing to eBay's Community Watch. My name is Lesley and I
understand that you still have questions about our guidelines for the
About Me page.
Please know that the About Me page is to allow eBay members to tell the
Community more about themselves, it was not meant to promote services or
items off the site. You may tell viewers to check out your website or
other websites, however, you may not mention the fact that products or
services are available on these websites. Therefore, if you were to
solicit or promote off eBay items or services for this site it would be
considered to be a violation of our Fee Circumvention guidelines and
will not be permitted.
For more information on our About Me Guidelines policy, please visit the
following URL:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/list...outme.html
Thank you for being a valuable member of the eBay community.
Warm regards,
Lesley
Community Watch Team
eBay Trust & Safety
_____________________________________________
Only eBay could make the offering of something for free "fee avoidance"
Jen
(My ME page isn't done yet, but I'm working on it in my spare time)
BBH was right and I was wrong--I really thought it would fall under the "hate speech" guidelines.
Quote:Only eBay could make the offering of something for free "fee avoidance"
$200 shipping = not fee avoidance
Free = Fee avoidance
Only in ebays world could this happen (the truth is stranger then fiction)
Angel
Quote:Workshop hosts shipscript, *zip and merrygocats
Funny names. Imagine if all businessmen and politicians used userids.